Kathleen O'Malley, Author at SPM Blog

Katie Matlack: iOS medical peripherals: convenient and connected

by Kathleen O'Malley | Feb 1, 2012

This guest post from Katie Matlack (reposted from the free site Software Advice) launches a new section of e-Patients.net: “PM Tech.” This special branch of e-patient resources is gaining importance as smartphones and tablets become ever more mainstream....

TED talk on doctors’ mistakes

by Kathleen O'Malley | Jan 27, 2012

TED.com has posted physician Brian Goldman’s very engaging presentation from November 2011, “Doctors make mistakes: can we talk about that?” Goldman discusses the impossibly high expectations we all have of doctors — doctors themselves...

Peter Elias: Empowerment and collaboration

by Kathleen O'Malley | Jan 19, 2012

Guest blogger Peter Elias, MD, a family physician, raises some interesting questions about the nature of patient empowerment and explores its implications regarding patient-physician collaboration. This piece originally appeared on the author’s blog,...

JoPM: A Doctor’s Remedy for Long Waits

by Kathleen O'Malley | Jan 11, 2012

A new article in the Journal of Participatory Medicine tackles the problem of long wait times at doctors’ offices, a leading cause of patient dissatisfaction. “Waiting Room Remedy: Doctor Pays for Delays (The Doctor’s Perspective)” by Pamela...

Ileana Balcu: The marriage of HIT with quality, transparency and cooperation between patients and doctors

by Kathleen O'Malley | Jan 9, 2012

In the latest post in our Why I Joined SPM series, guest blogger Ileana Balcu shares her story of pain, searching, and finally healing, once she discovered the e-patient community. Follow her on Twitter at @yogileana. It was 2002 and I was happily pregnant. I thought...